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The Case for Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children

Heckman, James J. - In: CESifo DICE Report 6 (2008) 2, pp. 3-8

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Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models by Maximum Likelihood and the Simulated Method of Moments

Eisenhauer, Philipp; Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We compare the performance of maximum likelihood (ML) and simulated method of moments (SMM) estimation for dynamic discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic features of educational choices in the United States in...

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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets

Black, Sandra; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children. …

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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000

Heckman, James J.; Li, Xuesong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college education for late 20th century China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among individuals selecting into schooling based on these differences. We use recently developed semiparametric methods to identify...

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Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe

Heckman, James J.; Jacobs, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

complementarities in skill formation. Investments in the human capital of children should expand relative to investment in older workers …

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The GED

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - In: Handbook of the Economics of Education

induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …

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The GED

Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568301

Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2015

markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is substantial evidence that more educated people … spouses or children. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207857

Individual Behavior as a Pathway between Early-Life Shocks and Adult Health: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany

Kesternich, Iris; Siflinger, Bettina; Smith, James P.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …

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Does grief transfer across generations? In-utero deaths and child outcomes.

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2014

two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies—augmented with a …

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